Disintegrator.



J. BOBR O. DISINTEGRATOR. APPLICATION FILED 0013, 1910.

Attic Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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' Attest w J. BOERO.

DISINTEGRATOR.

APPLICATION FILED 0071. 3, 1910.

1,01 3,527, Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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bur .rs arnn'r o i JOSEPH BOERO, OF PARIS,

FRANCE, ASSIGiNOR TO GARDNER CIR-USHER COMPr"Lh"Itf', LE. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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-Patented an.

Application filed October 3, 19l0. Serial No; 585,096,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn BGERQ, a citizen of the Republic of France, and a resi-' dent of the city bf Paris, in the; Department of Seine and Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in- Disintegrtors, of which the. following is a specification.

The inventionrelates to machines adapted to be used for disintegrating materials of various kinds, and is particularly useful for crushing and pulverizing ore as a preliminary to the amalgamating process. Its uses, however, are not limited to this art, and may be extended to many other arts in which it is desired to crush and disintegrate,rnaterials of varying degrees of hardness.

The objects of the improvements are,

amon others to rovide a sim le stron h 7 7 durable and effective crusher or pulverizer; to reduce the power required to a minimum; to accelerate the operation and do the work more tl'ioroughly, and to accomplish certain other advantages as will appear.

The invention consists of the construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed and illus trated in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isa perspective view of a disintegrating machine embodying the improvements with the cover removed. Fig.2 is a vertical medial section taken at right angles to the operating shaft of the device. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-sec tion substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

The cover A is provided with an opening A at its front end near the top, and a hopper B is secured to the edges of this opening and extends above the cover to receive the materials to be crushed which enter the machine through the opening A of the coverl- The cover at its ends has suitable hinge members C by which it is hinged to the lower casing D, hinge members E being secured to the upper edge of said casing. The hinge members 0 and E have openings C and D, respectively, bored horizontally therethrough and adapted to receive a rod F, and in this manner when bothwhinge members are connected, the casing is -securely locked, while when the hinge members at one end only are secured, the connection acts as a hinge on which the cover may vsaid casin arallel with the sh D be raised and turned bac'k. The raising and lowering of the cover is facilitated by the handles G on either side of the cow The shaft H extends between the cover and lower casing, and a suitable recess A provided in the cover to receive its bearings J. Suitable bolts K are provided at the ends of the shaft by which it n it t connected with suitable power transnnttrag mechanism.

Inside the casing, and near the inner walls thereof on either side, are a pair of {S keyed to the shaft H and revolving there with, and a series of itshaped heaters iii are mounted by having tlr" horizontally turned ends passed into the l l'lillllarly arranged in the disks.

1, curved screen N is located, and throrg this creen 3b the crushed material must p: as in or r L0 be discharged from the machine.

In the upper part of the cover it are cured blocks R and S extending across th cured thereto by means of bolts The uppermost block it extends a il l n than half way across the cover froin. the er opposite the inlet opening and the in block extends a little more then h width of the block R and has its i in proximity to the path of the when the beating mechanism revolves (in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2). lVhen the material enters through the hopper it is struck by one of the heaters and thrown against the block It and broken to pieces. It falls back just in time to be struck by the next succeeding beater which hurls it against the lowermost block and further breaks it. It then falls back within the path of the inneredge of the successive heaters which form a phantom cylinder 7 is ground to pieces by the attrition o1.

moving particles within this phantom cylinder until it is reduced to dust when it falls to the bottom of the cage and through the screen. It will be seen therefore that the crushing of the materials is not accomplished by the impact of the beaters and by contact with the blocks R and S, alone but by violent and rapid contact of the pieces of material with each other inside the cylinder formed by the heaters as they revolve. This is one of the important features of the invention, and provides fo the thorough pulverization of the materials at a minimum of power and wear on the parts of the machine.

When the materials are thoroughly crushed they will gradually sift out through the screen N at the bottom, and their place will be taken by fresh materials supplied through the hopper.

In crushing different materials, blocks of different sizes and shapes maybe used, and

' these blocks may be replaced when worn or changed to suit the requirements by simply raising the cover and removing the nuts on the upper ends of the bolts R and S.

The operation of the device will be clearly understood from the description of the foregoing. I i

"What I claim is:

A disintegrating apparatus comprising a casing having an inlet opening in the end, a shaft journaled in the casing, boaters mounted on said shaft, a plate secured to the top of the casing and projecting from the end opposite to and projecting toward the opening to a point very near the vertical plane of the shaft, and a second shorter plate directly below the first ending at a point farther away from said vertical plane, and presenting sharp angular corners with which ma terial thrown by the beaters will contact, the angular corner of the upper plate being located at a greater distance beyond the path of movement than that of the lower plate.

Witness my hand, this 8th day of September, 1910, at the city of Paris, Department. of Seine, Republic of'France.

JOSEPH BOERO.

Witnesses H. C. COXE, J OHN BAKER. 

